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IMS Green: Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency

IMS Green is a transdisciplinary platform for research, education and action related to the mediation of climate and ecological emergency. Critical theoretical, scientific, and not least artistic perspectives and methods meet in the cluster’s manifold activities. IMS Green is situated within the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal studies.

We live in a state of planetary climate and ecological emergency. Scientific research as well as global news reports and local and indigenous testimonies point towards an alarming increase in signs of current and future collapse.

But what exactly is meant by terms such as "climate," “ecology” and "emergency," and what happens when they are brought together in declarations of "climate and ecological emergency"? What does it mean for us to orient ourselves cognitively, ethically, culturally, and politically in the near-to unfathomable complexity of the climate, especially in a situation defined as an emergency? How can we create spaces for action in relation to temporalities and scales that are difficult to grasp?

IMS Green argues that the climate and ecological emergency must be seen as a set of mediated phenomena; that is, phenomena that are, in many ways, rendered sensorial, intelligible and imaginable through complex processes of mediation operating in and between diverse media types. Consequently, mediations of the climate-ecological emergency is one of the essential starting points for ecological awareness and agency.